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• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  wanky blog entries lately, I'd like to write one that's not, because ... just seeing the faces of young students and old professors, you start to ... . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  misconception not only because of all the prospectives students I've talked to about MIT's supposed lack of fun, but also because I used to think the ... looking for something to do, you virtually guaranteed to find something

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  Francisco, just about to fly back to Boston to prepare for FAP (Freshman Arts Program), and the adjustment back to home life has been, as usual, greater ... , but there are exceptions to every rule, and mine is not being bothered

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Show In Town [by David Freilach, Guest Blogger/Assistant Director, LVAC] ARTalk guest blogger David Freilach checks out the…

  

  entrance to the new Central Square Theater. (Photo by CST) I had the chance to take a hardhat tour of the new Central Square Theater less than two ... to be honest, it was because I live around the corner and had been

  • by ARTalk
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  'm heading home to South Bend for a week to recover and recharge before ... MIT feels like home, I'm definitely looking forward to going back. Before I take off on Saturday, though, I have to deal with what I think has

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  (especially during CPW) but sometimes it gets ridiculous. When I'm late to class ... start to get angry. Be smart, take a picture of the tree when people aren't trying to get to class. I now try to be more refined in my photography

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox ... I was using to put off doing my own problem sets) and do a little ... stairs to celebrate with Burton 3rd when Burton 3rd burst through the door

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always ... possible, once one has established effective study habits, to maintain decent grades with time to do other things besides study? And I got the impression

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  also is remarkably active in exploring innovations to classroom ... engaged in tutorial (in groups of 4 to 5). An important point is that ... experienced faculty) so that students get an opportunity to engage in active

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  cancelled due to Chicago being buried under 20 stories of golfball-sized hail with frogs inside. Or at least that's what I have chosen to believe. So I'm flying back to Boston by way of Portland, Oregon and Philadelphia

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the ... Davidson Institute offers many programs of interest to the kinds of students ... potential to make a positive contribution to society; and GT-Cybersource, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  Flowers student to attend MIT, thanks to scholarships Student ... Technology in the fall. Eletha Flores' dream always was to attend the ... that's fine because she had a plethora from which to choose, including a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  . Question: "What about Are Four years enough to get advantage of all the resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much you take advantage of what MIT has to offer, there are going to be

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  school's production, remember. I will get to posting integral answers soon ... I don't want to spoil the fun. By the by, I found out the average on ... seen all the way through. No lie. But onward to business. Today was the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  to tell you. If there's anything I learned from MITblogging, it's that Mitra would secretly like to erase all evidence of her existence from the ... one about people and expect nobody to ever post videos of you. Once

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  presumably the last non-science paper I will ever have to write. In my life ... a biology major to read ethnographies in which the author (an American anthropologist) claims to have gotten malaria in Africa because a rival sorcerer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  while back, I posed a challenge question to you (about two thirds of the way down the linked page). I wanted to identify the cosplay roles played ... people! First, I got an email from Eric more than a week ago (to give you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  . Which means that we will have to find a new housemaster. The new ... held elections to choose the two student reps. A lot of people ran, more ... ) and I were chosen for the two spots, giving me yet another hat to wear

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  East Campus courtyard and I am left to decide what happened to my weekend. Most everyone resolved to get some work done on these couple of days, but ... ] There are leaves all over the courtyard, various shades of green to yellow

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  (Note: to everyone who has emailed or commented with questions, I got ... ... ah, New England weather. More time to do homework? Something like that ... to the Z Center with nothing to show for it, I headed up Mass Ave to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005